Notícies
11F: International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
Feb. 3, 2023
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly decided to proclaim 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the aim of achieving full and equal access to science for girls and women. This year IFISC …
Modeling the spread of Pierce's disease of grapevines
Jan. 30, 2023
Wine production is being decimated in some places by Pierce's disease, caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. Researchers propose a model that takes into account the effect of ambient temperature to see how climate change will affect its spread. A …
Traveling patterns in seagrass meadows
Jan. 9, 2023
In seagrass meadows there are patterns associated with high mortality of plants capable of moving while maintaining their shape.Researchers propose a model that reproduces these traveling patterns and at the same time is a diagnostic tool for the health status …
Researcher’s Night 2022: La Resistència Científica
Sept. 16, 2022
La Resistencia Científica is a late night science show that will bring together the centres of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in the Balearic archipelago to talk about the science being done in these islands with a touch of …
Modelling the deadly noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis) epidemic
Sept. 13, 2022
A model designed by researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC), in collaboration with IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), LIMIA (IRFAP) and INAGEA, develops an epidemiological model to comprehend marine epizooticsIn a new article written by IFISC and the University of Buenos Aires, the researchers analyse …
Identifying the acidification trend of the Balearic Sea using artificial intelligence
Sept. 5, 2022
This study highlights the use of machine learning to characterize the pH decline in the Balearic Sea, a key task in assessing the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity. The results show a trend of pH decline similar to …
Voces, CSIC Balears: Quantum Reservoir Computing, quantum networks and outreach
June 27, 2022
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) and the Institutional Representation of CSIC in the Balearic Islands join forces and create "Voces, CSIC Balears", a bimonthly podcast for the dissemination of science. Through interviews with scientists working at CSIC's centres in the Balearic Islands, it …
Physics to understand the Ukrainian conflict
May 25, 2022
Two researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) have analyzed the existence of "the two Ukranias" using statistical physics tools: the data-based evidence does not support this hypothesis.Massimiliano Zanin and Johann Martinez, researchers at IFISC (UIB-CSIC), have analyzed the Ukrainian conflict from the …
Boosting the efficiency of quantum heat engines
May 6, 2022
A team of researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) has demonstrated that a quantum chiral conductor driven by an alternating current voltage can operate with efficiencies much higher than the hitherto insurmountable Carnot limit. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, the …
The World-Wide Waste Web, the network through which our garbage travels
March 28, 2022
IFISC researchers have identified which 57 countries in the world are at high risk of waste congestion.The study, published in Nature Communications, has analyzed global networks for the exchange of different types of litter between 2001 and 2019.A group of …